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This is PopApostle's home for studies
of the TV episodes, videos, movie and
licensed tie-ins to Firefly and Serenity. I will be presenting my studies relating to
each, such as commentary on the science described, sound bits of memorable
dialog, screen grabs and my own musings. I'll be presenting them in my estimation of the chronological order
each story takes place.

"Fun With Dick and Jayne"

"The R. Tam Sessions"

Firefly: Still Flying

Online webisodes

Episode 1a

Episode 1b

Episode 2

A piece of Jayne Cobb's boyhood is revealed in a
vignette.

The strengths and weaknesses of a
young girl are revealed in a series of counseling sessions at
an Alliance
facility.

The crew of the smuggling ship
Serenity take on some passengers, not knowing the people may
be even more hazardous to carry than their standard cargo.

Mal must make a decision about what
to do with his fugitive passengers.

Mal and his crew are hired to hijack
a shipment from an
Alliance
train.

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Serenity encounters a
shipwreck left booby-trapped after a horrific Reaver attack.

In order to secure a job transporting
cargo off-planet for a client, Mal attends a social event that
leads to him being challenged to a swordfight in defense of
Inara’s honor.

When Simon is kidnapped by a village
in need of a doctor, Serenity is forced to dock with an
Alliance
ship to seek medical help for a critically wounded Shepherd
Book.

Mal inadvertently marries a young
village girl.

Serenity visits a
world where Jayne is considered a hero of mythic proportions.

"What Holds Us Down"

"Downtime"

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Firefly: Still Flying

Webcomic

After an explosion leaves Serenity
crippled, Mal orders the crew to abandon ship.

Simon hires the crew to pull a
heist—one that will help him diagnose and treat River.

Tension surfaces with
Wash over his wife’s relationship with Mal; Niska
seeks revenge on Mal for his earlier refusal to deliver the
goods hijacked from the
Alliance
train.

A junkyard heist goes wrong, leaving Kaylee
to play the hero to get herself and the injured Wash out alive.

Serenity spends some downtime snowed-in
after a planetary rendezvous.

"Crystal"

"Objects in Space"

Episode 11

Episode 12

Firefly: Still Flying

Episode 13

Episode 14

Mal is shocked to discover that an
old friend’s new bride is Saffron under a new name.

Mal and Zoe receive a large package
that they find contains the body of an old war buddy.

River has visions of the fates of
Serenity's crewmembers.

A bordello, whose madam is an old
friend of Inara’s, hires the crew to protect them from a
gunslinger and his gang.

A bounty hunter secretly boards
Serenity and methodically disables the crew one-by-one to
claim the enormous reward on River’s head.

"Better Days" Part 1

"Better Days" Part 2

"Better Days" Part 3

"Those Left Behind" Part 1

Those Left Behind Part 2

Serenity: Better Days #1
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Better Days #2
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Better Days #3
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Those Left Behind #1
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Those Left Behind #2
(Dark Horse Comics)

The crew pulls an art heist, but something
is watching them.

The crew heads to the resort world of
Pelorum to enjoy some of their new-found wealth.

After Mal is kidnapped by Ephraim, Zoe
makes a revelation to the crew.

A job goes wrong on a border world, forcing
a hasty escape; Inara prepares to leave Serenity for
good.

On old foe reappears to aid the Blue Hands
in setting a trap for
Serenity.

"Those Left Behind" Part 3

"The Other Half"

"Triggered"

"A Better World"

"Living Weapon"

Serenity: Those Left Behind #3
(Dark Horse Comics)

Webcomic

Serenity movie (Part 1)

Serenity movie (Part 2)

Serenity movie (Part 3)

While the blue-gloved agents move on
Serenity, Mal has his own showdown with Dobson.

Mal accepts a job that sounds too good to
be true.

River gets “activated” by a
subliminal message planted in a TV commercial.

The crew of Serenity discover
the secret of Miranda.

The crew of Serenity must get
through Reavers, the Alliance, and the Operative
to reach Mr. Universe and broadwave the Alliance's crime to the
Verse.

Who was Shepherd Book before he took
his message of salvation to the stars? Who was he when he
learned to fight without pause, without remorse, and with a
blinding fury? And how did he find God in a bowl of soup?

Friends from Wash’s past toast to
their departed comrade.

A would-be hijacker, plotting to take
Serenity, gets the drop on Mal.

Where is Serenity?

Everyone is searching for Serenity...and
someone finds it.

"Leaves on the Wind"Part 3

"Leaves on the Wind"Part 4

"Leaves on the Wind"Part 5

"Leaves on the Wind"Part 6

"The Warrior and the Wind"

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#3
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#4
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#5
(Dark Horse Comics)

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#6
(Dark Horse Comics)

Free Comic Book Day 2016(Dark Horse)

River goes in search of secrets, while
Jubal Early finds his prey.

Mal assembles a team to take on the Academy
and free its students.

Showdown against the Alliance!

Mal stages a breakout of Zoe on the prison
moon.

River tells little Emma a bedtime story.

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 1

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 2

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 3

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 4

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 5

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse #1(Dark Horse)

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#2(Dark Horse)

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#3(Dark Horse)

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#4(Dark Horse)

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#5(Dark Horse)

The crew receives a call for help from Iris.

The crew agrees to help Iris find Bea with
some help from the Peacemakers, but things take a turn.

The crew puts their plan to rescue Bea in
motion.

Bea is sprung from an Alliance cell; River
returns not her old self.

Having rescued Bea, the crew now find
themselves having to ally more closely with Mericourt to rescue
River and Iris from the Alliance.

"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 6

"Take the Sky"

Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#6(Dark Horse)

Firefly: Still Flying

The crew escapes from Burnet, but not
without damage.

A seventy-odd-year old Mal receives a
package at his remote rim world home.